Shady AI tech firm Palantir was just caught trying to recruit school kids

On Monday 18 August, activists from the group Climate Resistance disrupted a training day Palantir was holding for 16-18-year-old students in central London.

They chanted loudly outside the recruitment event:

Students say it loud and clear, we reject Palantir.

Activists also warned attendees against trusting the shady AI technology firm, shouting:

Hands off our students! Hands off Palestine!

🚨 BREAKING: we're targeting a recruitment event for @PalantirTech – billionaire-owned, genocide-complicit military intelligence contractor.

More to follow 👀 pic.twitter.com/FYk9C1jFus

— Climate Resistance (@climate_resist) August 18, 2025

Unsurprisingly, security were quick to manhandle protesters and remove them from inside the event:

🔥 PROTESTER THROWN OUT OF PALANTIR TRAINING EVENT 🔥

Abolish @PalantirTech.
Abolish Billionaires.
Free Palestine. https://t.co/nRnpJ2rY4s pic.twitter.com/NsjE7akTb8

— Climate Resistance (@climate_resist) August 18, 2025

Palantir: neck deep in Israel’s genocide and warmongering

Palantir uses AI to create and analyse massive datasets, in many cases to monitor, predict, and target citizens. The company has large contracts with the Israeli military, ICE in the US, and UK police forces to boot. In 2023, NHS England awarded it a £330million contract, on a mission to access NHS data from the backdoor.

Palantir keeps the specifics of its involvement with the Gaza genocide secret. However, what is known is that its support of Israel includes the AI “kill chain” targeting system Gotham. CEO Alex Karp has described the company killing Palestinians, who he has called “mostly terrorists”. The company continues to power the IDF, and Karp is particularly outspoken in support of modern crusades. Notably, he has told investors that:

the rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence

And he has stated that Palantir has:

a consistently pro-Western view, that the West has a superior way of living and organizing itself.

Peter Thiel trying to ‘groom’ students

Sam Simons from Climate Resistance said:

Students shouldn’t be groomed by companies like this. Palantir is enabling an ongoing genocide and helping authoritarian governments track every move of their citizens. Capitalists like Peter Thiel and Alex Karp rely on human rights abuses to grow their share of the pie even larger. As the climate crisis continues, AI-assisted militaries and justice departments will have the power to crush any resistance to the profit drivers of figures like Thiel and Karp. We need to tax these billionaires out of existence before they get even more power over the lives of innocent people. They have already shown their apathy for humanity.

The richest 1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity. Meanwhile, they are responsible for more emissions than two thirds of the global population. According to YouGov, over half of Brits believe billionaires should not exist and, according to the most recent survey published this year, 78% support a wealth tax. This includes the support of 66% of those with assets over £10 million.

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